Correct use of READ and WRITE with word variables?

[free1000]

I'm struggling with some of the descriptions in the manual.

I'd like to store some WORD sized data in the EEPROM area of a 28X so I've been looking at the manual entries for WORD READ and WRITE. I don't want to use an external EEPROM, there are plenty of ic2 examples for this, but I don't want to go down that route as my data storage requirements are pretty minimal

There aren't any code examples for writing and reading word data, so I'm a bit unsure about how to use the syntax

WRITE location, data, data, WORD wordvariable

and

READ location, data, data, WORD wordvariable

I'd expect to have a bit of code that looked something like

main :

' set value of word variable
w0 = 1234

' write word variable data to 2 byte locations in EEPROM
WRITE somewhere, b0, b1, WORD w0

end


Is there a brief code example somewhere that could show me how to do this?

 

[eclectic]

Hope this is correct!

#picaxe 28X
w0 = 12345
w1 = 2345
write 0,WORD w0
write 3,WORD w1

pause 1000

read 0,WORD w3
sertxd ("Location 0 = ", #w3,cr,lf)
read 3,WORD w4
sertxd ("Location 3 = ", #w4,cr,lf)

This syntax checks correctly and works in the simulaor.

e.

 

[free1000]

#picaxe 28X
w0 = 12345
w1 = 2345
write 0,WORD w0
write 3,WORD w1

pause 1000

read 0,WORD w3
sertxd ("Location 0 = ", #w3,cr,lf)
read 3,WORD w4
sertxd ("Location 3 = ", #w4,cr,lf)

This syntax checks correctly and works in the simulaor.

e.

Cheers I'll try it. I've tried several other variations with no success.

 

[free1000]

Thanks that worked, once I swapped my X1 part for the X part in picaxe VSM.